“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
No. 0076
May 23, 02007
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1. DIGITALIS CELEBRATES CD-R CULTURE, GOES ON THREE-DAY MINDBENDER IN L.A.
“After four years of cranking out cds and cdrs, it seemed like it was time to finally put together a live event celebrating digitalis and the entire cd-r culture that has sprouted over the past half-decade. thanks to grant capes and the good folks at echo curio the opportunity to put on such an event presented itself. initially conceived as an exhibition, the project grew into what it’s become today. the line-up of the festival is as follows (it is subject to change, but this is basically it):
digitalis and phantom limb present..
BOTTLING SMOKE
a 3-day event of art & music
may 25th-27th
los angeles, california
Echo Curio (in echo park):
1519 Sunset Ave, Los Angeles, California 90026
Mr. T’s Bowl (in highland park):
5621 1/2 Figueroa Ave, Highland Park, California
Friday, May 25th at the Echo Curio (FREE, $5 suggested donation)
9pm Antique Brothers
10pm Ilyas Ahmed
11pm Sea Zombies (new project from john xela & brad rose w/ special guests jefre cantu-ledesma & gregg kowalsky)
Midnight Pocohaunted
Saturday May 26th at the Echo Curio (FREE, $5 suggested donation)
Noon – Metal Rouge
1pm – Changeling
2pm Mike Tamburo and Matt McDowell
3pm The Alps
4pm The North Sea (first ever live appearance)
5pm Xela
Saturday May 26th at Mr. T’s Bowl ($8 cover, cash only day of show)
8:30pm Robedoor
9pm Thousands
10pm Ghosting
11pm Starving Weirdos
Midnight Tarentel
1am Heavy Winged
Sunday May 27th at the Echo Curio (FREE, $5 suggested donation)
Noon The Holy See
12:45pm The White Rainbow
1:30pm Valet
2:15pm Gregg Kowalsky
3pm Theo Angell
3:45pm Dan Brown (from hall of fame)
4:30pm (VxPxC)
5:30pm Agilvsga (first ever live appearance)
6:30pm Nick Castro
“most of this event will take place at echo curio. all performances there are FREE to the public. one show, on saturday night, will take place at mr. t’s bowl. this show will cost around $8. it’s pretty hard to beat that.”
Lots more infos:
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/fest.html
http://www.myspace.com/bottledsmokefestival2007
2. ARTHUR NO. 5 (“HOORAY FOR EMPIRE! – USA #1 WITH A BULLET” cover w/ David Cross as crazed jingoist god-blessed S.U.V.-driving soccer Mom) IS SOLD OUT. This was the issue we published back in June 2003 when oh 90% of the USA was in favor of invading Iraq. Yep. They’re gone forever, peacenik fanboy. That said, you can download the entire issue in PDF (11mb) here:
http://www.arthurmag.com/pdfs/arthur5.pdf
3. DID YOU KNOW?
There were draft resistance communes in the USA during the Vietnam War.
4. ARTHUR RETURNS IN JULY
“There is no other periodical I look more forward to arriving than the new Arthur”
Rick Rubin
“Arthur is really something singular and much-needed”
Dave Eggers
“The American counterculture’s answer to the New Yorker”
The Guardian
“The central voice of the new scene”
Will Hermes, The New York Times, 2006
“[Arthur’s first 25 issues featured] an admirable chunk of visionary muckraking and alternative journalism… This was not Spin or Blender’s flashy, tastemaking colleague. More like its anarchist brother.” – Audra Schroeder, Austin Chronicle, 2007
“Arthur was oversized, free, colorful, patchouli-scented but whip-smart, unapologetically political, sometimes silly, often anarchist and always willing to listen to voices way, way outside the mainstream. Above all, it was prophetic, usually about two years ahead of the rest of the country in its loves and obsessions.” – Keach Hagey, Village Voice, 2007
“[Arthur] has been busy streaming the revelations and imperatives of the New New Age into pop culture, where the kids can get at it… Arthur has become the place where the ideas meet the music; where Derek Jensen’s freefall apocalyptics can sit with total aptness beside a piece on nouveau hippie swooners Brightblack Morning Light. The same issue begins with a column about mint tea and ends with a list of ‘sensitive weapons’ (e.g., shotgun shells taped to the end of a BB-gun barrel) for use when the grid collapses and Devendra Banhart fans are called upon to defend their homes and woolly hats…. Arthur has saturated itself in the ’60s, via features on the Weather Underground, the MC5, the 1967 March on the Pentagon, and also in the post-psychedelic slant of the music coverage. But there’s nothing regressive here. From the freaky folkers to the acid rockers, Arthur bands have their eyes on the advancing historical horizon…” – James Parker, Boston Phoenix, 2006
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5. COULD WE HAVE SOME PEACE AND HARMONY PLEASE
As you know, Arthur Magazine and L.A. Record present
The Echo Park Social(ist) and Pleasure Club
at Little Joy
1477 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
Thursday, May 24
AND EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT
9:30pm-last call
This week’s deejays:
930: PETER ‘DOC’ ALBERTS
11: JASON MCGUIRE, ATTORNEY AT LARGE
1230: MS. JESSICA ESPELETA
Last week jay babcock played this stuff, tho’ not exactly in this order:
Soft Machine – “Hope for Happiness”
Latin Playboys – “Viva La Raza”
Akron/Family – “Blessing Force”
Tim Maia – “Energia Racional”
Tim Buckley – “Hong Kong Bar”
Howlin Rain – “Calling Lightening With a Scythe”
Goon Moon – “Every Lionhearted Christian”
Frank Sinatra – “One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota So)”
Amadou and Mariam – “Djagneba”
Nina Simone – “Rich Girl”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
Tim Maia – “Rational Culture”
Then COURTNEY SHANKS and ZACH COWIE played some songs from people like:
bob dylan
gene clark
the velvet underground
led zeppelin
chuck berry
blue cheer
doug sahm
tom t hall
doug ashdown
betty davis
can
fairport convention
They’re sorry for any bummers the technical difficulty caused, but are sure they were all erased by how hard JASON MOORE killed it with his set directly after, which consisted of the following, maybe not in this exact order:
Don’t Put No Headstones On My Grave-Charlie Rich
Nobody’s Butt but Yours Babe-Blowfly
Give Back the Key to My Heart-Doug Sahm & Texas Tornados
Keep it Going-Delaney Bramlett
Let it Rock(live)-Rolling Stones
Country Roads-Merry Clayton
Tenessee Jed-Grateful Dead
Ophelia-The Band
Keep on Steppin’-Fatback Band
Feel Good-Ike and Tina
Let’s Work Together-Canned Heat
You Got a Good Thing-Little Sonny
Trouble No More-Allman Brothers Band
Let’s take it to the Stage-Funkadelic
Ramblin’ Rose-Ted Taylor
Feelin’ Allright-Joe Cocker
I’ll Be Creepin’-Free
Keep on Growing-Derek & the Dominoes
Robert Palmer-Sailing Shoes
We’re Gonna Groove-Led Zeppelin
Faith to Arise-Terry Reid
Cancel Everything-Ron Wood
It’s a Long Long Way-Elder Hightower/Sister Massey
Feel like Goin’ Home-Charlie Rich
6. AND YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR GAIT
From the May 22 New York Times on a dude who runs a popular NYC store selling police hats:
Although police agencies from various countries may wear different hats, Mr. Vega, a longtime observer of officers, said that there are qualities common to members of nearly all forces, no matter how far-flung. He said he has about an 80 percent success rate in spotting [non-uniformed] officers based on the way they walk and talk.
“I know the swagger,” he said. “In their eyes you can see it.”
We’ll grow more,
Spawn of Arthur
Los Angeles, California
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